ABOUT BEVERLEY

Beverley is a short film set in Leicester in 1980.

Short Film "Beverley" written and directed by Alexander Thomas, highlighting the identity problems young people of mixed nationality in urban areas faced on a day-to-day basis in Britain before multi-culturalism. Set against the backdrop of Britains 2-Tone music era of 1980.The film begins in the urban city centre where Bev lives with her parents Caroline and Travis, younger sister Jess and autistic brother Carl. This is an economically depressed environment – consistent with The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’ in many ways, although amongst the shuttered empty shops within the network of council housing and their frequent red lights, is a vibrant social multicultural community. Bev feels at home here drifting in and out of houses, listening in to the incessant noise of drinking, socializing and sound systems.

Soon Beverley is taken out of this urban sprawl, due to the sudden riches (attained by dubious means) won by her father. A move to the relative comfort and theoretical safety of white suburbia follows. Symbolic of Britain tip-toeing towards prosperity in the 1980s this new world is characterized by consumer items previously unavailable. It of course comes at a price – gone is the vibrant, diverse, social community, replaced by curtain twitching small mindedness and worse. A familiar enemy is ever present – a threat that extends beyond her own safety and from which she must protect her brother and sister. By asserting her will and using her guile, Bev tries to shape her new environment into something palatable, but the result is the opposite of what she is trying to achieve.

was i black was i white was i both or was i neither?,
Becoming a rude girl i could find some sort of identity
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why black british rather than black english?

THE TEAM

Laya Aiesha Lewis a Bristol actress best known as Liv Malone in British TV drama Skins (2011). Laya also starred in Emeli Sandé's (2012) video "My Kind of Love, short movie The Line (2014) and plays Beverly in BEVERLEY (2015).

Vicky McClure, born Nottingham, 1983 is an actress best known for her work in the films of Shane Meadows. She starred as Ladine, Romeo's sister, in A Room for Romeo Brass and also featured in Meadows....

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We are hoping to raise funds for the film in order to submit it to festivals across the UK and worldwide after opening at the London Short Film Festival 2015. So much time and heart went into this short by all that participated. It is entirely a passion project for us that we are incredibly proud of, and we want others to be able to see the film and support independent filmmaking. This will see the film pick up more recognition and hopefully become a Launchpad for us for a feature film.

Every contribution donated will be going toward the film's distribution to film festivals. These costs include:

· Festival Entry Fees

· Electronic Press Kits

· Format Conversions

· Hard Copies of Film for Entry

· Printing and Postage costs

Please hit the "Donate" button below. Any help is always appreciated and you will receive a personal thank you from the Director and Producer. THANK YOU!